Soil moisture: variable in space but redundant in time

Mälicke, Mirko; Hassler, Sibylle K.; Blume, Theresa; Weiler, Markus; Zehe, Erwin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2633-2020

Articles | Volume 24, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2633-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2633-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 24, issue 5

Research article

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25 May 2020

Research article |

| 25 May 2020

Soil moisture: variable in space but redundant in time

Mirko Mälicke, Sibylle K. Hassler, Theresa Blume, Markus Weiler, and Erwin Zehe

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Final revised paper (published on 25 May 2020)
Preprint (discussion started on 08 Nov 2019)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'Temporal stability is already a well-established concept', Ryan Teuling, 10 Nov 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Ryan Teuling’s Interactive comment on „Soil moisture: variable in space but redundant in time“', Mirko Mälicke, 14 Nov 2019
  - SC2: 'Relevant topic', Ryan Teuling, 14 Nov 2019
RC1: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Nov 2019
- AC2: 'Response to ‚Review‘ by Anonymous Referee #1', Mirko Mälicke, 03 Dec 2019
AC2: 'Response to ‚Review‘ by Anonymous Referee #1', Mirko Mälicke, 03 Dec 2019
RC2: 'Soil moisture: variable in space but redundant in time', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Dec 2019
- AC3: 'Response to Referee comment by Anonymous Referee #2', Mirko Mälicke, 09 Dec 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (14 Jan 2020) by Alberto Guadagnini

AR by Mirko Mälicke on behalf of the Authors (10 Mar 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (13 Mar 2020) by Alberto Guadagnini

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (04 Apr 2020)

ED: Publish as is (22 Apr 2020) by Alberto Guadagnini

AR by Mirko Mälicke on behalf of the Authors (28 Apr 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

We could show that distributed soil moisture time series bear a considerable amount of information about dynamic changes in soil moisture. We developed a new method to describe spatial patterns and analyze their persistency. By combining uncertainty propagation with information theory, we were able to calculate the information content of spatial similarity with respect to measurement uncertainty. This does help to understand when and why the soil is drying in an organized manner.